evello

ē-vello, velli (Cic. Sest. 28; id. de Or. 1, 53 fin. ), post-class., vulsi (Flor. 4, 12, 38; Sen. ad Marc. Consol. 16, 7 al.), vulsum, 3, v. a., to tear, pull, or pluck out (class.).

I.

Lit.:

linguam se evellisse M. Catoni,

Cic. Sest. 28: ferrum, * Caes. B. G. 1, 25, 3:

arborem,

Liv. 33, 5:

dentes,

Plin. 30, 3, 8, § 25 et saep.:

spinas agro,

Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 5; cf.:

ebulum, cicutam e segete,

Plin. 17, 9, 6 §

55: clavos sepulcris,

id. 34, 15, 44, § 151:

statuam de monumento,

Dig. 47, 12, 2.— Poet.:

odorem e turis glebis (with divellere),

Lucr. 3, 327:

castra obsessa (sc. ex obsidione),

i. e. to relieve, Sil. 7, 335.—

B.

To drag away, tear away:

ab altari eum,

Vulg. Exod. 21, 14; cf.: lucos tuos de medio tui, id. Micah, 5, 13.—

II.

Trop., to tear out, root out, eradicate, erase (a favorite word of Cicero):

radicitus mala,

Lucr. 3, 310:

consules non modo ex memoria sed etiam ex fastis evellendi,

Cic. Sest. 14 fin.:

scrupulum ex animo,

id. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; cf.:

aculeum severitatis,

id. Clu. 55, 152:

omnem eorum importunitatem ex intimis mentibus,

id. de Or. 1, 53, 230; cf. id. Clu. 1 fin.:

iras (e pectore),

Sil. 14, 183.